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CVE-2016-8655

Published: Dec 8, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

Race condition in net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.12 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging the CAP_NET_RAW capability to change a socket version, related to the packet_set_ring and packet_setsockopt functions.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

SUSE-SU-2016:3096

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/84ac7260236a49c79eede91617700174c2c19b0c

x_refsource_CONFIRM

SUSE-SU-2016:3206

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

SUSE-SU-2016:3169

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

SUSE-SU-2016:3117

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

SUSE-SU-2016:3197

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=84ac7260236a49c79eede91617700174c2c19b0c

x_refsource_CONFIRM

exploit

x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1400019

x_refsource_CONFIRM

exploit

x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

SUSE-SU-2016:3247

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

SUSE-SU-2016:3183

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140063/Linux-Kernel-4.4.0-AF_PACKET-Race-Condition-Privilege-Escalation.html

x_refsource_MISC

[oss-security] 20161206 CVE-2016-8655 Linux af_packet.c race condition (local root)

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

SUSE-SU-2016:3116

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

SUSE-SU-2016:3113

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

SUSE-SU-2016:3205

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

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